You managed to identically configure machines? Funny. We were trying to spec out some Inspiron 8000's for our company. The least processor you could get with Windows was 900MHz PIII. Only option with RH was 750MHz PIII. Couldn't get the better display, couldn't get....
We concluded it would be easier to just buy the damned thing with Windows and handle our installs ourselves.
I highly recommend you start from the first strip. Everything makes so much more sense that way.
Sluggy? Make sense? I didn't think it had done that since Bugsquishers.
Sluggy's great, but if unresolved plot threads make your stomach queasy, stay away. Go in for the humour and surrealism, not the plot.
By all accounts the "cel" included is not a cel, but rather a small poster printed up on transparent plastic. One could consider it a "cel reproduction" or a "cel print," but it's definitely not a piece of plastic that was actually shot on film.
Fushigi Yuugi: new title, very well-executed by Pioneer, very very big in Japan and a big fan favorite.
Slayers TV: somewhat of a smaller budget/less popular series, back catalog title, mediocre video, phase-inverted audio.
Pioneer's back catalogue stuff is usually pretty cheap--Moldiver for $20?
Yes, this release will be expensive. It's a brand-new show, continuing a fan favorite series, and it's an OAV (always more expensive than TV). Pioneer will probably do their usual excellent job of mastering it, as well. Does that make it overpriced? Nope.
LOL. Starts to sound like my MUD prompt, which covered about half the screen.
For some reason I never customized my bash prompt half as much as the MUD. Maybe I should do that now...it would feel like old times.
(hmmmm...now how do I get my current hitpoints in bash...)
Has anyone here seen/played Sakura Taisen? The voice acting in that game is terrific. Granted, there is a good deal of FMV, but even the "normal" scenes with the characters speaking is rather well done. Besides, the FMV is an integral part of that game!
Pretty simple: the Japanese VA industry is light-years ahead of American. Disney's pretty much the only company in the US that takes the time to do truly good voice work. There are exceptions, and it's getting better, but "give a guy a bunch of words to read" is still norm in the US, whereas generally in Japan the VA's interact in a sort of "reader's theatre" setup.
Combine that with a relatively high-profile, high-budget game like Sakura Taisen, and you've got a winner.
I liked Babylon 5 well enough. Another "movie" wouldn't be a bad thing. But I'd really like to see MJS go on to other things rather than do another series.
Joe isn't into recycling stuff. Crusade was very different from B5, in cast and feel, despite being in the same universe. I'm sure Rangers will also be a show of its own.
For non B5-related stuff by JMS, check out Amazing Spiderman (for which he writes these days), Rising Stars, or Midnight Nation.
I don't know about Cisco's daytime support, but I can confirm that if you call 'em at three or four in the morning, they're incredibly helpful. I had to pull an all-nighter to get a site live a couple of months ago, and they spent a number of hours on the phone with us figuring out why the traffic wasn't routing (turns out this particular firewall didn't like doing NAT when the internal IP address had a number in the 60's--don't know why). Very polite, knowledgable, and willing to help--certainly the high point of that particular hellish project.
I think you're missing Scott's position here. He's been talking about breaking free of the publishers even since the original Understanding Comics. He's taken it on the nose financially by alienating the print media. He honestly thinks that Tycho and Gabe should be able to live off PA, or whatever work they want to do, and has been throwing out ideas and calling people to think about different ways of looking at comics for years. He's lost money and respect trying to pave the way for guys like Tycho and Gabe. Or Piro and Largo and Dom and Seraphim and Tsubasa. Or Glenn and Will and Dan.
On the other hand you have Tycho, who has had the idea of living off his art come falling down around his ears, at least for the short term. Hell, it's a reasonable expectation to hope to make money from creativity, and the fact that it doesn't always work is quite possibly the SUCKIEST thing about life. Into this comes Scott with his happy ideas and his bright vision of the future, and Tycho in understandable frustration lashes out with his excellent comic, making the point that IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!
That's cool. I think it's what Scott wants to see: people engaging him about his ideas, and in a medium he loves. But Tycho's rant was a bit harsh against Scott as a person, and Scott's understandably hurt by that, just as Tycho's hurt by Scott's ain't-online-comics-wonderful attitude. The idea of Scott as some self-proclaimed spokesman is particularly laughable, as I'm sure he'd love to see other people come out and speak their minds. Yes, it's important to not steal time from the art by talking about it too much, but a certain amount of discussion can feed back into creativity.
No, I don't think Scott is God or god. Neither is Tycho. Both of them are artists that I respect a lot. And I think they have a hell of a lot to say to each other (displomatically!). I hope they get the chance to say it.
I've had a friend pull off the Ohio Turnpike, hand them his ticket, and be told "Your toll is $92, sir." $7 for toll, $85 for the speeding ticket.
They're watching, all right. Best best is to pull off and get a burger at one of the oasis places along the way.
But in my opinion the whole "they ripped off Nadia!" deal is the work of a few sad sacks who simply don't like Disney and will look for whatever reasons they can find to bash it. Either the resemblances come from plot points commonly used by a lot of other stories, or else they're sheerly superficial.
I think it's pretty obvious that there's at least some cross-pollination between Nadia and Atlantis. If Disney had just come out and said "Yeah, we were partially inspired by Nadia, we think it's a cool show, but we're doing our own work here, not just rehashing something," that would be fine. But they deny that anybody within Disney even knew about the existence of Nadia! They lost a lot of credibility with the Lion King fiasco by claiming they didn't know anything about a movie that they provided some advice and support for!
In short, it's not the common elements that's the problem. It's the failure to acknowledge sources.
...it's a mildly funny movie, worth the time to go see (whether or not it's worth the money is another matter entirely), but nothing fantastic. It was fun to watch, I'll probably rent it and watch it one more time in my life, and that will be sufficient. Summer popcorn movie and nothing more.
LOTS of sci-fi references, though. 2001 and Ghostbusters have been pointed out, but I was seeing Andromeda Strain through the whole thing. A friend of mine said it reminded him of some radio program he heard as a kid.
The only people who have anything to fear from this are the child pornographers, pedophiles, child molesters, etc. in general anybody who would harm children
Then why do you lock your doors? The nice police will keep all the bad people away. Why do the feds have to get a warrant to wiretap your phone? You have nothing to fear, right? Why don't you live in a glass house?
Given that Canada lies north of the 48th, I wonder what they're planning on using for a launch site. Probably they can get time with some of the many equatorial launch facilities, but a Mars program involves transporting an awfully large amount of stuff to the launch site, especially if they try to keep production mainly within Canada.
You have to hit this on a lot of fronts. I'd recommend a chiropractor after you've tried a few of these. When you go, make sure you get a chiropractor who doesn't want to see you, who bends over backwards (no pun intended) to give you alternatives to work on outside of the office.
Stretches. Regular, routine stretching will make a big difference. Try a few of these, daily:
Lay on your back, lift your left knee towards your nose. You can put your hands behind your knee to pull a little bit closer, but don't bounce or overstress. This helps pull the muscles in your lumbar region.
Crunches. 'nuff said. Strengthens the abs nicely to help hold you up.
"Superman." This is hard. Lay flat on your face with your arms out in front of you (like Superman flying, thus the name). Now, without bending your legs or using any muscles other than your lower back and buttocks, lift your legs off the ground. Hurts like hell.
"Bridge-up." This is one from junior high floor gymnastics. It's roughly the first step to a backbend, and you have to be really careful. Lay on your back with your knees up and your arms curved back over your head, so your fingers point towards your body. Then push yourself upwards. This is a real good stretch and also strengthens those nasty wrist muscles.
Get a little exercise. If you're a little bit flabby, that extra weight can really hurt. Walk fifteen minutes a day. Try to get into a regular swimming routine. Lift some weights--go for lighter weights with many reps; the goal is to move the muscles and, frankly, your back, because part of the problem is that your back isn't used to moving around.
Consider your seating. Get decent lumbar support. How is your spine curving? I'm really in a bind here, because I'm 6'4". I can't fit into the world. Chairs are too low, so I can't sit with my feet flat and my spine curves. Car seats which curve forward "above the shoulders" push right on my shoulder blades. For the latter, I have a sheepskin pad which fits under those curves nicely so I'm not arched over. But overall, think about these things
I second what a previous poster said: glucosamine is great stuff. Name brands will set you back $1 a pill. House brands are maybe 20 cents. I haven't noticed a difference.
Decent arch support. You can buy generic arch supporters, which help. But ultimately, it's worth going to your chiropractor and getting custom supports. $200, but it's worth it. Inadequate arch support tilts and rolls your hips, messing with your back. Not good.
Cervical pillows. $40 or so for a foam-core pillow which supports your neck without tilting your head. This will help immensely.
Chiropractic. A really good chiropractor will help you with advice on all of the other things listed here, and do more than just adjust. But a good adjustment does help--the goal is to have them as rarely as possible.
Derek did a lot more than support BC3K. Take2 shoved a beta in a box and shipped it, without his permission or even knowledge. He sued and managed to win back the rights to his game. Then, on his own time and money, he laboured to create a series of patches that made the darned thing work reasonably well. Once that was done, he turned around and got another publisher, but rather than selling the same thing, added a bunch of content and some technical improvements to make it worth being another product, rather than a "pay for the patch" scenario.
The man has a big ego. He has some massively high ambitions for his game. (BCM is staggering in scope). But he does seem to do a damned good job of standing behind his work and trying to deliver on his promises.
Give me Farscape (although it's been rather dark recently), or the first four seasons of Babylon 5
Well, there's always hope in the form of Crusade possibly getting back off the ground (no, it wasn't perfect, but it looked to be gearing up--B5 first season was shaky, too). And an even greater possibility of a Rangers series, with the pilot movie already in filming. So, the B5 universe isn't dead, and I'm sure there are other people out there with some knock-your-socks-off ideas that will eventually be heard. Just because Trek: TOS really got TV skiffy off to a good start doesn't mean the Trek franchise is our only hope.
I've owned and administered dozens of Dells. I've had few if any problems, and always, always Dell has provided excellent support --and more than half the time they did't need to: support.dell.com absolutely kicks ass
Yeah, they're good, but not perfect. They just recalled a RAID controller because it could randomly corrupt data. You know how much fun it is to call up a client and let them know the system will be down while we fix something that may have been randomly scrambling their data over the past few months?
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GamesDomain's gratest yirtue, IMO, is that they take a week or two to actually play games before reviewing them.
Well, I'm from another competing site, and that's generally what we do, too. Of course, there are always some exceptions, even dramatic ones. But we buy our own games, occasionally score an interview, and pretty much have fun losing money, since it's about the hobby and a chance to share a good game (and scorn a bad game) with other gamers.
Plus the junkpile reviews are great (so cool of an idea, I took over them)--you know we aren't getting subsidized for those!
Different TV formats.
Japan uses NTSC, same as the US. Okay, so the black level is a little different--it works just fine.
Different Language.
Doesn't follow. If people want to play the games, they can either learn the language or muddle along. Region lockouts don't *help* with the language problem.
Because DVD's are already Regionally coded so Sony has to make them seperate
That's something of a point, but that doesn't requre the games to be coded as well. DVD region coding is completely separate from PSX/PS2 region lock-outs.
decipher_saint wants to know why Sony (and others) erected an artificial Japan/NA barrier. Just because real barriers A, B, and C exist doesn't mean there should be additional barriers D and E put in place.
An interesting (and important) point, but ultimately a little off. Most linux distros also support unattended installation, but how many file servers do you really need? SAMBA being a primarily server-side app, it doesn't make much sense to do automated installs.
On top of that, administering a Windows network takes time, skill, and education, just as much as a UNIX network. MS talks about lower TCO if you just buy Windows, but that hasn't been borne out at my job.
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You managed to identically configure machines? Funny. We were trying to spec out some Inspiron 8000's for our company. The least processor you could get with Windows was 900MHz PIII. Only option with RH was 750MHz PIII. Couldn't get the better display, couldn't get.... We concluded it would be easier to just buy the damned thing with Windows and handle our installs ourselves.
I highly recommend you start from the first strip. Everything makes so much more sense that way.
Sluggy? Make sense? I didn't think it had done that since Bugsquishers.
Sluggy's great, but if unresolved plot threads make your stomach queasy, stay away. Go in for the humour and surrealism, not the plot.
By all accounts the "cel" included is not a cel, but rather a small poster printed up on transparent plastic. One could consider it a "cel reproduction" or a "cel print," but it's definitely not a piece of plastic that was actually shot on film.
Fushigi Yuugi: new title, very well-executed by Pioneer, very very big in Japan and a big fan favorite. Slayers TV: somewhat of a smaller budget/less popular series, back catalog title, mediocre video, phase-inverted audio. Pioneer's back catalogue stuff is usually pretty cheap--Moldiver for $20? Yes, this release will be expensive. It's a brand-new show, continuing a fan favorite series, and it's an OAV (always more expensive than TV). Pioneer will probably do their usual excellent job of mastering it, as well. Does that make it overpriced? Nope.
Bah. That's IDE Raid. I can do a TB of fibre channel for that much. Bunch of Seagate Cheetahs, ICP Vortex controller, and cases from Transduction.
For some reason I never customized my bash prompt half as much as the MUD. Maybe I should do that now...it would feel like old times.
(hmmmm...now how do I get my current hitpoints in bash...)
Pretty simple: the Japanese VA industry is light-years ahead of American. Disney's pretty much the only company in the US that takes the time to do truly good voice work. There are exceptions, and it's getting better, but "give a guy a bunch of words to read" is still norm in the US, whereas generally in Japan the VA's interact in a sort of "reader's theatre" setup.
Combine that with a relatively high-profile, high-budget game like Sakura Taisen, and you've got a winner.
Joe isn't into recycling stuff. Crusade was very different from B5, in cast and feel, despite being in the same universe. I'm sure Rangers will also be a show of its own.
For non B5-related stuff by JMS, check out Amazing Spiderman (for which he writes these days), Rising Stars, or Midnight Nation.
I don't know about Cisco's daytime support, but I can confirm that if you call 'em at three or four in the morning, they're incredibly helpful. I had to pull an all-nighter to get a site live a couple of months ago, and they spent a number of hours on the phone with us figuring out why the traffic wasn't routing (turns out this particular firewall didn't like doing NAT when the internal IP address had a number in the 60's--don't know why). Very polite, knowledgable, and willing to help--certainly the high point of that particular hellish project.
On the other hand you have Tycho, who has had the idea of living off his art come falling down around his ears, at least for the short term. Hell, it's a reasonable expectation to hope to make money from creativity, and the fact that it doesn't always work is quite possibly the SUCKIEST thing about life. Into this comes Scott with his happy ideas and his bright vision of the future, and Tycho in understandable frustration lashes out with his excellent comic, making the point that IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!
That's cool. I think it's what Scott wants to see: people engaging him about his ideas, and in a medium he loves. But Tycho's rant was a bit harsh against Scott as a person, and Scott's understandably hurt by that, just as Tycho's hurt by Scott's ain't-online-comics-wonderful attitude. The idea of Scott as some self-proclaimed spokesman is particularly laughable, as I'm sure he'd love to see other people come out and speak their minds. Yes, it's important to not steal time from the art by talking about it too much, but a certain amount of discussion can feed back into creativity.
No, I don't think Scott is God or god. Neither is Tycho. Both of them are artists that I respect a lot. And I think they have a hell of a lot to say to each other (displomatically!). I hope they get the chance to say it.
I've had a friend pull off the Ohio Turnpike, hand them his ticket, and be told "Your toll is $92, sir." $7 for toll, $85 for the speeding ticket. They're watching, all right. Best best is to pull off and get a burger at one of the oasis places along the way.
I think it's pretty obvious that there's at least some cross-pollination between Nadia and Atlantis. If Disney had just come out and said "Yeah, we were partially inspired by Nadia, we think it's a cool show, but we're doing our own work here, not just rehashing something," that would be fine. But they deny that anybody within Disney even knew about the existence of Nadia! They lost a lot of credibility with the Lion King fiasco by claiming they didn't know anything about a movie that they provided some advice and support for!
In short, it's not the common elements that's the problem. It's the failure to acknowledge sources.
Someone mentioned on the dri-devel list that the modules that ship with XFree 4.1 are newer than any that ship with any kernel.
He's only going 30 miles up? What's the point, then? It's not even edge of space. (Space being defined somewhat arbitrarily at 50 miles).
LOTS of sci-fi references, though. 2001 and Ghostbusters have been pointed out, but I was seeing Andromeda Strain through the whole thing. A friend of mine said it reminded him of some radio program he heard as a kid.
The only people who have anything to fear from this are the child pornographers, pedophiles, child molesters, etc. in general anybody who would harm children
Then why do you lock your doors? The nice police will keep all the bad people away. Why do the feds have to get a warrant to wiretap your phone? You have nothing to fear, right? Why don't you live in a glass house?
Given that Canada lies north of the 48th, I wonder what they're planning on using for a launch site. Probably they can get time with some of the many equatorial launch facilities, but a Mars program involves transporting an awfully large amount of stuff to the launch site, especially if they try to keep production mainly within Canada.
Ultima IX post-patch review. There are places that do this sort of thing.
The man has a big ego. He has some massively high ambitions for his game. (BCM is staggering in scope). But he does seem to do a damned good job of standing behind his work and trying to deliver on his promises.
Give me Farscape (although it's been rather dark recently), or the first four seasons of Babylon 5
Well, there's always hope in the form of Crusade possibly getting back off the ground (no, it wasn't perfect, but it looked to be gearing up--B5 first season was shaky, too). And an even greater possibility of a Rangers series, with the pilot movie already in filming. So, the B5 universe isn't dead, and I'm sure there are other people out there with some knock-your-socks-off ideas that will eventually be heard. Just because Trek: TOS really got TV skiffy off to a good start doesn't mean the Trek franchise is our only hope.
Yeah, they're good, but not perfect. They just recalled a RAID controller because it could randomly corrupt data. You know how much fun it is to call up a client and let them know the system will be down while we fix something that may have been randomly scrambling their data over the past few months?
Well, I'm from another competing site, and that's generally what we do, too. Of course, there are always some exceptions, even dramatic ones. But we buy our own games, occasionally score an interview, and pretty much have fun losing money, since it's about the hobby and a chance to share a good game (and scorn a bad game) with other gamers.
Plus the junkpile reviews are great (so cool of an idea, I took over them)--you know we aren't getting subsidized for those!
Japan uses NTSC, same as the US. Okay, so the black level is a little different--it works just fine.
Different Language.
Doesn't follow. If people want to play the games, they can either learn the language or muddle along. Region lockouts don't *help* with the language problem.
Because DVD's are already Regionally coded so Sony has to make them seperate
That's something of a point, but that doesn't requre the games to be coded as well. DVD region coding is completely separate from PSX/PS2 region lock-outs.
decipher_saint wants to know why Sony (and others) erected an artificial Japan/NA barrier. Just because real barriers A, B, and C exist doesn't mean there should be additional barriers D and E put in place.
An interesting (and important) point, but ultimately a little off. Most linux distros also support unattended installation, but how many file servers do you really need? SAMBA being a primarily server-side app, it doesn't make much sense to do automated installs.
On top of that, administering a Windows network takes time, skill, and education, just as much as a UNIX network. MS talks about lower TCO if you just buy Windows, but that hasn't been borne out at my job.